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Can Carbs Make You More Durable? How Fueling Shapes Late-Race Performance

Three new studies show carbs can help preserve your durability, but grams eaten, fuel burned, and performance preserved aren’t the same thing.

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George Scholey Claims the Rubik’s Cube Mile Record in Toronto

The British speedcuber solved four cubes and ran 5:09.25, a time he is now preparing to submit to Guinness World Records for review.

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Your Ultimate Guide To the 2026 Amsterdam Marathon

Geofry Kipchumba returns to defend the fastest marathon ever run on Dutch soil, and organizers have painted a blue racing line through the corners to help him go quicker. Here are the start times, how to watch and track runners, the forecast and the elite fields.

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Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon Pace Calculator: Your Km-by-Km Race Plan

An interactive pace plan for every kilometer of the Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon, built by mapping every turn, turnaround and change in elevation on the course, calibrated against nearly 19,000 finishers of the 2025 race, and adjusted for race-day weather.

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Toronto Waterfront Marathon Pace Calculator: Your Km-by-Km Race Plan

Enter your goal and corral, and get a pace for every kilometer of Toronto’s waterfront course, built from the splits of nearly 7,000 finishers and adjusted for race-day weather.

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Italian Ultrarunner Andrea Marcato Wins the 3,100-Mile Self-Transcendence Race for the Seventh Straight Year

The 44-year-old finished in 45 days, 3:11:28 on Wednesday morning in Queens, New York, extending the longest winning streak by a man in the race’s history.

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Amanal Petros Headlines the Fastest Men’s Field in Frankfurt Marathon History

The European champion is 27 seconds off Bashir Abdi’s European record heading into the Oct. 25 race, and 2018 winner Meskerem Assefa has cleared a visa delay to join the women’s field.

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New York Road Runners Is Starting a Free Running Program for High School Boys

NYRR Trailblazers will take teenagers in grades 10 to 12 from no running experience to the Percy Sutton Harlem 5K next summer, and NYRR announced it alongside a report showing its membership has passed 100,000 for the first time.

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